Volunteering?

It’s a day to celebrate volunteers and volunteer-driven organisations, and the role of each in wider society. Which is quite appropriate for us given almost all bi organisations are run for the good of wider (bi) society rather than with the people involved making money out of it.

More than 15m people volunteer in the UK every month – and 21 million people volunteer at least once a year, which contributes an estimated £23.9bn to the UK economy. Behind these big numbers is a big contribution.

Bi organisations might like to use the date to showcase the range of volunteering opportunities available as well as celebrating their existing volunteers. There’s huge range of ways people can help bi projects but sometimes people aren’t aware of them or they have a particular perception of what volunteering is about: that they aren’t skilled enough or important enough to make a difference.